The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-15
.sourHERN eL.EANINes.


the other day. He whirled around two
or three times and ran. After running
some distance he stopped and went
through the same spinning motion. He
has been crazed ever since
A Tennessee mountaineer recently
found, under a ledge of rock, the sword
of a Confederate officer. It proves to
have belonged to Captain who was killed
in a skirmish, and one of his command
hid it that it might not fall into the hands
of the Union forces.
J. B. Scott, of Americus Ga, a few
days since, found his mule apparently
dead in its stall He put a chain about
its neck and dragged it two miles to the
woods and left it for the buzzards to feed
upon. The next morning the mule stood
at the lot gate waiting to be fed.
Rain fell in torrents in the vicinity of
Louisville, KY, a few days ago. The
storm was accompanied by great claps of
thunder and a vivid play of electricity.
| At Harrods Creek, about eleven miles
| distant, Emile Galloway and Claude Sum-
| mers, two boys who were at a picnic,
| were killed by lightning. The boys were
| each seventeen years old and were sons
/ of well-knOwn people of Louisville. They
had taken refuge in the hollow trunk of
a large sycamore. The tree was split in
| two by lightning, followed by a loud clap
of thunder. Galloway was killed in
/ stantly His companion lived long enough
! to be carried into a DOCTORS Office near
/ by. where he expired in a few moments.
Camden, Gre enbriar, Mout Eagle and
| Seyierville, Tenn; Ellesville Depot,
/ Good man, Martin and Sparta, Miss;
| Bardwell, Central City, Hillsbrough,
| Junction City and williamsburg. KY, and
| Wilson Station, La, have been made pos
| tai money-order offices.
Ex-Mayor R E. Nichols, of Cochran,
| L., few days since struck Cons table
| Meachman on the head and killed him.
| They were quarreling over a business
matter. Nichols is hiding out.
! The message sent to Governor Knott of
| Kentucky by the chief of the posse who
| wiped out the Tolliver gang will take its
| place alongside of Veni vidi, vici, and
other lac0nic statements of victory. 1t
| was simply: Il done it"
Georges. Turner the wealthy owner of
! a cotton-miul in Spartanburg County, s.
| C., few days since shot and killed one
| of his employees named Julius MetZkia
| who had made a claim for wages which
| Turner dis puted. The murderer fed to
/ the woods, and the sheriff, with posse,
| was in pursuit.
| Primus Jones, of Baker County, Ga,
has for the twen tieth time marketed the
first bale of Georgia cotton, which was
| classed as low middling, and he will thus
continue to wear the belt as the champion
cotton raiser of the State.
Milo Thomas, n young white man, was
kiIel at Augusta, Ga, few days ago,
by fourteen-year-old negro boy. A dis
pute arose a bout a cigarette picture be
| longing to the boy. Thomas slapped the
boy and was killed by a stab from dirk
in the hands of the latter.
Alfred SOveck, a German employed on
the farm of 7. J. Sutherland, three miles
from Wilmington, n. C., few days ago
shot a man named Mills, the superintend-
ent of the farm, with pistol three times.
/ 11~ n md zbn
himself through the heart, dying instant
ly. Mills is not seriously hurt, and will
recover.
The trial of Geo. II. Millington, at Mem
phis, Tenn, for the murder of Thomas o.
Kennedy at Millington Station on May 16
last, was concl uded by the jury return
ing verdict of guilty aud sentencing the
defendant to the peDitentiary for fifteen
d years.
Sam Breen and Eph Jones were terribly
whipped by mob at Graysville, Ca, a
few days ago. Breen had made dis
paraging remarks about a respectable
young lady of Graysville on July 4, and
a mob was organized to resent the insult.
Mormon missionaries from Utah have
been laboring for some time in Georgia
and South Carolina with such effect that
they have been ordered to leave those
States by bands of regulars They re-
fuse to depart, however. and it is inti-
adopted in order to rid the country Of
their presence.
Dr. E. Standiford, of Louisville, one of
the wealthiest men in Kentucky, and a
!; candidate for the United States Senate to
succeed Mr.. Beck, was married atPaducah
a few days ago to Miss Lorena Scott, an
I estim BILE youn lady. The ceremony was
quiet one. Dr.. Standiford has been
married three times and has grown chill
dren.
John w. Mackey, the engineer at the
| Brush Electric Light Company's works
in Memphis, Tenn, was caught in the
betting a few days ago and was killed by
being drawn under the fiy-wheel. The
deceased was formerly engineer at the
: custom house and had only been eIn-
ployed at the electric works few days.
He leaves wife and two children.
Data recently collected as to the wages
of skilled and unskilled labor in the South
show that the prevailing averages are uot
much below those of the North. Unskilled
labor commands about 81 a dav, on an
, average. waiIe skilled labor ranges from
J g.. 25 to S?45 per day. 1t will be seen that
the negro laborer of the South is not so
D much worse of than the white laborer Of
r the North as Mr.. Blaine has tried to make
the country believe.
The sergeant at the Nashville (Tenn.)
, police-station heard a scream in behind
the bars, the other night, and, running
back, found Pleas Terry, an old negro,
trying to hang a small white boy, who
y was also tprisoner. The negro made
a rope out of blanket, and, catching the
I boy, proceeded to hang hum to the bars of
the cell. A woman who was scrubbing
gave the alarm. The boy was uncOn-
scious when rescued by the sergeant. Ter
I ry was examined by DR.. Mitchell, who
= prom ounced him insan
e A heavy burglary was perpetrated at
Canton, Trigg County, KY, few nights
o. ago. The safe of W. J. Fuqua's store
was drilled into and robbed Of $40. 900 in
money. About half of it belonging to
Fuqua, the rest was deposited with him
for safe keeping by Lester Bros, Lewis
u johnson and others, as there is no bank
5 in the town. The burglars tools were
/, found near the safe, and the work was
evid entity done by professionals. A re-
ward of $500 is offered.
The year is on the down grade.
A few days ago a train was going
= over long trestle on the A. P. & L. road,
T | near the limits of Americus, Ga, two
a dogs W ere observed on the ge Just
y ahead. Tn whistle was sounded and the
|, / speed of the train lackened, but so near
had it approached the dogs that they be
came frightened and leaped OF the track
=. to the ground below, distance of TWEEN
& ty-hve or thirty feet, and, with the ex
5 ception of hard shaking up, escaped un-
5 hurt
4 R. F. Reeder, a miller, was bitten on
the nose by a rat few days ago at Dan
vile, KY. He lies in critical condition,
= erysipelas having set in
The old National Theater in New Or
leans was burned few days ago.
b Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, a promine nj
and representative citizen, president oi
the Louisiana Jockey Club, president oi
70 the Sugar Plan ters' Association and iden